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Advanced AIR – simple SQLite CRUD Database

Again, some more source files from my upcoming Adobe TV Flash Downunder series on Advanced AIR in Flash Pro which I recorded a little while ago. This time a simple CRUD database in AIR using SQLite. Apart from showing how to create an internal SQLite database file inside the AIR app, it also shows how to [...] (translate)

Advanced AIR – AIR Icons

This time, a very simple example on how to get started controlling the application icon in AIR apps. You can use content inside your Flash app to ‘draw’ to the icon – this could be a simple animation, a video, or maybe a progress bar animation. The example also shows how to get started using the [...] (translate)

Advanced AIR – Application updater

So, you have built version 1 of your AIR app and you want to publish it, but you know that you are going to release more versions of it in the future. So, what do you do? You make your AIR app updateable. In the last post I just pretty much just provided source files for [...] (translate)

Advanced AIR – Application UI

Over the next few weeks I am going to blog a number of slightly more advanced features of AIR applications using Flash Professional. After a lot of questions and feedback based on my current AdobeTV series of Flash Downunder, I decided to record a new series showing how to implement a number of the slightly [...] (translate)

Well worth the HYPE

What happens when the ultimate ActionScript geek – Brandon Hall and the ultimate Flash designer – Joshua Davis get together? HYPE! Brandon and Joshua met at FlashForward in New York in 2000 (funnily enough I was also at that conference) and this began the relationship that led to HYPE. So what is HYPE? It is a design/visual [...] (translate)

Pixel Bender Browser for Flash

Over the last couple of weeks while I have been on the road at MAX and a lightning tour of the Nordics, I have been working on an AIR app to make it easier for Flash users to get started with Pixel Bender. I have just published version 1 which allows you to open .pbj files [...] (translate)

More than Bending Pixels – FOTB 09

A few days delay in posting this as I had to fly back to Oz for a quick week at home before turning around and heading back to MAX 09. Flash on the Beach this year was all it was hyped up to be with some amazing presentations and a lot of “networking”! Thanks go to [...] (translate)

CS4 Masters Tour – Nordics

The Nordics CS4 Masters Tour starts soon! Here are the dates that Jason, Rufus and I will be in each city: Norway October 12th – Oslo Be Part of the Experience…You Decide The Agenda (microsite-Norway) Go to the Registration Form (Norway) Sweden October 13th – Gothenburg October 14th – Malmö October 15th – Stockholm Be Part of the Experience…You Decide the Agenda (microsite-Sweden) Go to [...] (translate)

Adobe staff raising money downunder for Charity

Well, its that time of year again when the staff from Adobe in Australia and New Zealand compete in teams to raise money for a charity. Last year I competed and we raised money for the Fred Hollows Foundation. This year the charity is the Cancer Council and the teams are competing in earnest. I am [...] (translate)

AdobeTV – CSInsider Design – The Designer to Developer Workflow with XFL

Another new episode on AdobeTV but this time it is Rufus’s show CSInsider |Design. In this episode Rufus shows how to export an XFL file from InDesign CS4 and open it in Flash Professional CS4. I help him out as a guest to start to bring the file to life in Flash. (translate)

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